Head of Cyber Safety
Core
Lead the build of Gray Swan's cyber safety capability, serving as the technical authority on AI-enabled cyber risk across red-teaming, evaluation, benchmarking, defenses, and safety infrastructure development.
Role type
Head of Cyber Safety (Technical Lead & Builder)
Builds
Scalable evaluation methodologies, safety infrastructure, automated defenses, and catastrophic cyber harm taxonomy for frontier AI systems.
Domain
AI Safety / Offensive Cybersecurity / Machine Learning
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Offensive cybersecurity, vulnerability research, exploit development, penetration testing, malware analysis, reverse engineering, adversarial evaluations, AI red-teaming, LLM security research, team building, strategic planning
Preferred skills
Machine learning model development, AI security classifiers, automated cyber detection systems, jailbreaking research, prompt injection research, agentic AI evaluations, threat intelligence, autonomous cyber operations, AI governance, software engineering in Python/Go/Rust
Technologies
Python, Go, Rust
Responsibilities
Design and lead adversarial evaluations of frontier LLMs for offensive cyber capabilities; Partner with ML engineers to translate cybersecurity expertise into scalable benchmarks and automated detection systems; Develop and maintain the catastrophic cyber harm taxonomy; Produce technical risk assessments for frontier AI labs and enterprise customers; Build, mentor, and lead a world-class team of cybersecurity experts; Represent the company as the cybersecurity authority to government partners and the community.
Seniority
Executive, hands-on IC
